Awkward Zombie is a wacky weekly gaming webcomic by Katie Tiedrich. While many of the strips are stand-alone gags from various games such as The Legend of Zelda or World of Warcraft, the webcomic also used to feature several recurring Super Smash Bros. characters living together in a building and dealing with various hijinks although this aspect has largely been dropped.

Adaptation Personality Change: The comic portrays Marth from Fire Emblemrather differently than the games do. The author was rather surprised when confronted with a game highlighting the difference, noting that "Sometimes I forget that I kinda sorta totally made up his characterization for the purposes of this comic."

Art Shift: Used as a punchline in this strip. After graduating from art school, BLU Spy makes a sniper disguise that is much more detailed and differently shaded from the RED Soldier standing next to him, inadvertently giving him away.

Katie: Ridley is kind of the only Nintendo villain who's ever done anything really awful — Bowser's a jerk and Ganondorf tends to make everyone anxious for a while, but both are still probably easily forgiven.

Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: When a Pokémon breeder gives Katie an egg that her Pokémon had, and says he has no idea where it came from. Katie calls him out on this, as a breeder he should know where eggs come from. The breeder then points to the very different Pokémon that Katie left at the day care, and asks if she knows where an egg would come from.

Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: In the Pokemon comics, Katie usually wears the male trainer's outfit (though for RSE she had a pants variant of May's outfit), and Norrin wears a variation of the female trainer's outfit from Black/White (with jeans instead of shorts). In the short-lived Nuzlocke comic he wears Green's outfit, skirt and all, after losing in rock-paper-scissors.

Power-Up Letdown: Several strips have Link's iron boots tear off his feet, and one strip has a fresly-found pair crush his skull when he drops them on his face. Another strip has a newly-found pair of hover boots fly away.

Reaction Shot: Mocks Golden Sun: Dark Dawn's use of this in Express. It didn't help that, as Katie admits, she picked up the game without knowing it was a sequel and, having not played the previous games she had no attachment to most of the things the characters were reacting to.

Reality Ensues: Many strips regard the consequences of some gaming events and abilities in real life.

One example is that using a move like Earthquake in the Battle Subway would lead to this.

Remix Comic: A popular activity on the forums. Usually, the Dominion Rod, Katie's Dad, & Entei come up at least once. Nowi has appeared as well, overshadowing Entei and Katie's Dad...until the edits escalated to almost NSFW levels and were greatly reduced in appearance as a result.

The Entei t-shirts are on the rise as well. Shortly after the release of the comic, a number of forum members shopped a shirt onto their avatars. The same happened on the forums with the Troubadourable shirts after the comic where most of the Shepherds wore one.

Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Pit for Roy. Foreshadowed in an early comic after it was announced that some characters wouldn't be returning to Brawl, made official after the game was released, Roy was kicked out of the house by Master Hand and Pit started taking his place in the jokes, though Pit annoys the others a lot less.

Most Pokémon games have the Professor character offer you your choice of starter Pokémon, except for Ruby and Sapphire where the Professor is being attacked by wild Pokémon and he tells you to take one from his bag to fight them off. Katie abuses the scenario to take all three and run.

The War on Straw: Carefully read the journalist's shirt in the first panel of this comic. For those whose prescription isn't good enough: I am made of straw. Okay, not subtle, but subtle in its own illegible way.

The follow up to "Under the Table" likewise has the punchline delivered by a "StrawGuy2009".

You Can't Go Home Again: Roy tries to break back into the Smash Bros. house, and is confronted my Master Hand who says no one is allowed to return, except Dr. Mario... and a couple Links... and Mewtwo.

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